Tying in nicely with the recent issue of Architectural Record which examined the growing area of humanitarian design Metropolis Magazine looks at affordable housing, asset-based design, design activism and how to educate the current generation of students who are interested in these issues. View full entry

There are plans to build several hundred new and often magnificent mosques throughout Europe -- particularly in Germany. Architecture has become the field of a fierce ideological battle about the visibility of Europe's 16 million Muslims. der Spiegel | slideshow | prev. View full entry

"New York City’s long-running building boom will peak this year, before new office and residential projects peter out in the coming years and the number of construction jobs falls by almost 30,000 by 2010, according to a report released on Tuesday by the New York Building Congress. " NYT |... View full entry

Quilian is live blogging the discussion between Cohen and Jones right now in his Harvard GSD school blog or watch the live video feed here. View full entry

To envision a new future for this lowly (yet overabundant) building stock, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) initiated the national competition "Flip a Strip". See the winning projects here. View full entry

Jeffrey Kipnis will interview Eric Owen Moss on Thursday, 10am-12pm. The discussion will be live here. View full entry

The Architectural League just opened an exhibition of projects by the thirteen New York-based architects participating in the Ordos 100. On view at the Urban Center through November 26. You can also view the video podcasts here. View full entry

We'll have the sketch back in SketchUp when I {heart} Sketch, a nascent 3d sketching application at Univ. of Toronto, gets bought up by someone smart. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Don't miss the video. View full entry

Nicolai review's "Tulou: Affordable Housing for China", which just opened at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.NYT He finds that;Designed by the up-and-coming Chinese firm Urbanus, the tulou is a centuries-old housing prototype, reworked for the hard realities of the global capitalist... View full entry

Archinect member Steven Ward reports on Kentucky/Indiana joint AIA convention for 2008. Valuable debate include; Chris Sharples, Bill Zahner, Kevin Klinger, Michael Speaks, Wil Marquez and David Banks. Read & discuss View full entry

There are rooftop gardens, and then there’s Chris and Lisa Goode’s rooftop garden, which is essentially an urban farm on top of a Little Italy building, complete with chickens and vegetables, fruit trees and migrating butterflies; all anchored by an elegant modernist penthouse... View full entry

Nick, at UC Berkeley, has just found out that he is one of three winners of the John K. Branner Fellowship, a year-long travel grant ($35,000 award). More And congratulations to Greg at Columbia for becoming an official architecture student by slicing off the tip of his finger last night. Ouch View full entry

Beyond the Malthusian gloom and doom that pervades most of the discussion about climate change and the current economic outlook, I am optimistic about the unique opportunity we have to change our behavior to preserve the environment and our future. Our consumer culture needs to shift towards... View full entry

Boston has the highest number of architects per capita in the United States. Yet the city is known more for brownstone than it is for Bauhaus. Can Boston's architects kick up their heels working within this four hundred year old footprint? How will urban planners refit the city to meet 21st... View full entry

Quilian, at Harvard University - GSD, recaps his impressions from NOMA's national convention and explains what Ferrari and Obama have in common. Or not. William's studio project at University of Washington, is revitalizing a site in downtown Seattle. Scott, at UCLA, creates a pretty rad unit from... View full entry